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Please piss off ECB
- Thread starter Jono
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theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Is it not a dangerous precedent for players to be allowed to play over IPL over being available for your country? What are the likes of Buttler and Broad gonna think now that Morgan and Bopara have been allowed to make a load of money playing IPL when they are stuck at home waiting for NZ to turn up two days before a test series?
I don't disagree with the ecb allowing Ravi and Morgan playing the IPL given their minimal chances of playing test cricket again. Just next year it will be Roy and Hales who have chances of being test players. And then Buttler will miss some tests at the start of the summer.
OverratedSanity
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This is pretty uncalled for. Ravi may be many things but I'm sure he respects his own body.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
They have incremental deals though which gives the ECB a lot of control and besides can't any board stop their players playing abroad if they so wish?
cnerd123
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The ICC isn't a professional, independent body.
It's made up for these same incompetent board members that are running their own country's cricket into the ground with their short-term, money-hungry plans.
So naturally whatever actions they take aren't going to be for the best interest of the sport; its just going to be for the best interest of its members.
And these administrators don't respect the fans or the players. They mistreat them both. It's hard enough trying to promote and develop a sport as complex and archaic as cricket. At its highest level it takes takes a week to play. You are never going to get the same level of TV viewership and crowds as you would at something much shorter and simpler like football. It also doesn't help that the majority of the fanbase seems concentrated in 1 country.
The only solution I can see is a sort of grass-roots, 'take back control of cricket' sort of movement where the fans start taking an active interest in how cricket is run in their country. But that's never going to happen. Because people have better things to do with their time. Build a meaningful career. Find love. Pursue other hobbies.
Instead, all I can see happening is that, slowly and steadily over time, all us hardcore, die hard fans will slip away from the game we love. Cricket will keep changing and morphing until it is something unrecognizable; perhaps just T20 leagues everywhere with exhibition all-star Test matches as a tribute to the past. Or maybe it won't even be that. Maybe it'll just keep dying a slow death, with fewer and fewer people playing and watching, and once the current admins in power are done leeching the life (and money) out of the game, they will drift off to be parasites on other aspects of life, allow real fans of the sport to come into power and start a cricket renaissance.
It's made up for these same incompetent board members that are running their own country's cricket into the ground with their short-term, money-hungry plans.
So naturally whatever actions they take aren't going to be for the best interest of the sport; its just going to be for the best interest of its members.
And these administrators don't respect the fans or the players. They mistreat them both. It's hard enough trying to promote and develop a sport as complex and archaic as cricket. At its highest level it takes takes a week to play. You are never going to get the same level of TV viewership and crowds as you would at something much shorter and simpler like football. It also doesn't help that the majority of the fanbase seems concentrated in 1 country.
The only solution I can see is a sort of grass-roots, 'take back control of cricket' sort of movement where the fans start taking an active interest in how cricket is run in their country. But that's never going to happen. Because people have better things to do with their time. Build a meaningful career. Find love. Pursue other hobbies.
Instead, all I can see happening is that, slowly and steadily over time, all us hardcore, die hard fans will slip away from the game we love. Cricket will keep changing and morphing until it is something unrecognizable; perhaps just T20 leagues everywhere with exhibition all-star Test matches as a tribute to the past. Or maybe it won't even be that. Maybe it'll just keep dying a slow death, with fewer and fewer people playing and watching, and once the current admins in power are done leeching the life (and money) out of the game, they will drift off to be parasites on other aspects of life, allow real fans of the sport to come into power and start a cricket renaissance.
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
we all know you're the evil one ffs
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Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Lot of chatter on twitter that four day tests are real possibility. Ian O'Brien said that the England-New Zealand series could be the first experiment for them, according to some reliable sources he has. Frankly this is horse****. ICC just want to milk the game for money. ****ers.
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GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Prince EWS
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I like to think I'd boycott this. As I said about the 10 team WC though, I probably won't.
OverratedSanity
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Test cricket doesn't need any tinkering and it's perfect as it is... bunch of morons.
